A history of Shrewsbury School : from the Blakeway mss., and many other sources . ool and St. Johns Colleo-e. The Library is a fine room 63 feet by 22 feet; originally it was a some-what similar room to the School Chapel underneath it, with a square-headedwindow at each end and three gables on each side. Under these gables werelow windows lighting a room similar to an attic where sleeping accommodationwas provided on an emergency or overcrowding of Boarders. In 1815 the upper part of the Library was taken down and thesquare windows at the end replaced by pointed ones, the walls at the sidebein
A history of Shrewsbury School : from the Blakeway mss., and many other sources . ool and St. Johns Colleo-e. The Library is a fine room 63 feet by 22 feet; originally it was a some-what similar room to the School Chapel underneath it, with a square-headedwindow at each end and three gables on each side. Under these gables werelow windows lighting a room similar to an attic where sleeping accommodationwas provided on an emergency or overcrowding of Boarders. In 1815 the upper part of the Library was taken down and thesquare windows at the end replaced by pointed ones, the walls at the sidebeing furnished with a parapet uniform with the other part of the SchoolBuildings. In the northern window were in stained glass the Arms of EdwardVL, Elizabeth, St. JohnsCollege, the See of Lich-field and Coventry, andthe Arms of the the southern windowthe Arms of the fourprincipal Benefactorswith appropriate Latininscriptions by Dr. ceiling of the Librarywas richly panelled andand ornamented with theArms of the Founders,Visitors, and the firstthirteen 168 On tlie walls above tLe bookslielves were portraits in oil of Heniy VIII.,Edward VI., Elizabeth, Sir P. Sidney, Judge Jeffreys, Samuel Parr, Locke,Edward Cotton, Richard Lloyd, Leonard Hotclikiss, Bisliop Butler, and twoothers. These are now removed to the Head Masters house on small Museum was also formed in the Library, but it has been graduallydispersed, except the hue Inscribed Sepulchral Stones from Uriconium,which are still left in the building. In the Memorials of Shrewsbury School it is noted that in 1829 theside windows of the Library were built up, because it was found necessary tostrengthen the building. The Library contains a very valuable and extensive collection of Booksand MSS., most of which have been given at various times to the S. Parr wrote in 1819 (and no one had more ample opportunities ofinspecting the Books), With an exception to the Eton Library enrich
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